Botox treatment is one that has come to be really prevalent for treating wrinkles and getting “the perfect” facial look, free of wrinkles and skin that needs extensive care. It makes the look of so many conscious people better everyday, and is being increasingly used everyday considering that one injection has its effect last easily for about four to six months and wrinkles do not form as easily after. It comes with its own pros and cons that are the subjects of other articles out there, but this article will mainly focus on how this treatment came to be, and its rise to prevalence in the past few years. In fact, the best botox injections have had such successes and as little negative impacts on their users which have actually made them (you guessed it), the best.

Botox (no points of guessing) is short for Botulinum Toxin considering it is produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum (which is written the way it is, owing to the rules laid down for the binomial nomenclature of living beings). Clostridium botulinum is a microorganism belonging to the class of Clostridia which is known for producing the neurotoxin named botulinum. The botulinum toxin is one that was first discovered during the outbreak of Botulism (a disease caused by the said bacteria) in Belgium in the year 1896 by van Ermengem. The toxin is one that is highly poisonous and around 2.5 odd kgs of the same can wipe out the entire human population on earth, making the dosage of 2.5 to 3.1 nanograms lethal for a human being.

Although it was another two decades before the toxin could be separated as crystals by Dr. Edward Schantz, the journey of botox has been unstoppable ever since. First used in the 1970s (1978, to be specific) the toxin was first used for the treatment of strabismus (a disorder which renders one of your eyes unable to focus on what you’re looking at, basically making you look like your constantly squinting).

Since then, there has been no looking back, with the applications of it include erasing various facial lines, treatment of crows feets and so on. Other clinical trials are also being conducted to know more about the effects of botox in other areas of medicine excluding plastics and progress is being made at a really fast pace.

Botox clinicas have also become really common with some of the best clinics of botox in Boca Raton.